Hello all. As the weather promises to be dry I will paying my first visit to the Dorset Cursus on saturday. Very much looking forward to this after reading all about it over the last year or so. I planned to go by bike with a tent last summer but was thwarted by rain and a dodgy knee. This time I go in more humble fashion by train and bus and hiking boots.
One thing that strikes me is the relatively few posts on TMA about it. I know there's not much to see but few people seem to visit it. What do you feel about cursuses (please, never cursi unless you really are Roman!)? Do they lack the vibes of megaliths or subterranean chambers? Has anyone visited but been underwhelmed?
Seems to me it's hard to picture them in the modern landscape as long passages carved through forest which had only started to be cleared here and there for farming. It's also hard to imagine how impressive they would have been to people who only knew the technology of the antler pick, the flint axe and the shoulder blade shovel. Maybe JCBs have sapped the mystery of moving earth somewhat for us. I hope I can recapture a little bit of that mystery.
